Major Browser Developers Release Speedometer 3.0 to Benchmark Performance
The collaborative effort aims to provide a more accurate measure of browser performance through new tests and workloads.
- Speedometer 3.0, the latest version of the popular browser benchmarking tool, has been released by a collaboration between Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla.
- The new version aims to better simulate real-world user interactions on web pages by including new tests and workloads.
- Critics argue that such benchmarks may not fully capture the nuances of browser performance, emphasizing the importance of user experience over raw metrics.
- Speedometer 3.0 includes tests for a variety of web technologies and frameworks, reflecting the complexity of modern web applications.
- The benchmark has evolved since its first release in 2014, with the browser landscape changing significantly over the past decade.